Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. You’ll find: A directory of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. So, if era of free 2.0

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JULY 28, 2010

What three questions are strangers who land on your site most likely to have? Devote space on your home page and/or within your navigation to answering the three big questions most likely to bring strangers to your site. Give them pass-along content like short videos and sample email text that they can share with their friends.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

Squarespace leaves out all the hubbub and gives visitors to your site a clear call to action. If you’re okay with giving up some control to maintain an elegant site, then Squarespace is the place to be. Weebly sites are created using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) system, meaning you can arrange pieces on a page visually.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2008

In a time when fundraising widgets, Causes on Facebook and other forms of web-based giving are rising in popularity, it's important to not forget the power of people connecting face-to-face. If you are looking for a way to support an organization or cause you care about while having a good time socializing, why not host a house party?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Here's a sampling of what other bloggers are saying about the new Change.org: "I can see Change.org becoming a social action site for the more mature crowd who want knowledge before they get involved, and who want to do more than passively sponsor causes through corporate donor widgets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" net2 nptech Web 2.0 What a pain!"

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

As NTEN states on their site, The NTC is THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. You can donate online here through Chipin, an online donation web application linked with Paypal. Please click on the widget below if you can donate. When is the NTEN Conference? Recommended by @kanter ).

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MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. What makes it powerful is that the podcast can be part of a broader web presence for your organization. The What and Why? Don't neglect to market your podcast through existing channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more. You can even add a good deed widget for your site.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. You can start small - whatever you have, even just a web cam mic. You can also use web cams for a video podcast. Can host your podcasts on your web servers, transfered through ftp, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I just sampled one month. Kaushik makes a distinction between "on-site" visitors or unique visits as calculated by your analytics program and "off-site" visitors. I think the more important metric here is RSS subscriber trends or what Kaushik called "off-site audience." Audience Growth.

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